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DEFENCE BLOG
Anduril Industries announced today that it has secured $1.5 billion in Series F funding to enhance defense manufacturing capabilities.
As noted by the company, this funding will enable Anduril to expand hiring, upgrade processes and tooling, increase supply chain resilience, and build infrastructure. Additionally, Anduril is investing in Arsenal, its manufacturing platform for modern warfare, aiming to produce tens of thousands of autonomous weapons systems to meet the urgent needs of the United States and its allies.
The Series F round, co-led by Founders Fund and Sands Capital, values Anduril at $14 billion. It includes new investors Fidelity Management & Research Company, Counterpoint Global, and Baillie Gifford, along with substantial commitments from existing investors like Altimeter and Franklin Venture Partners.
“As the United States and our allies attempt to gain affordable mass with autonomous systems, weapons, and munitions, the defense industrial base must be capable of producing orders of magnitude more than it is currently producing today,” Anduril stated. “To support that effort, Anduril is investing our own dollars to hyperscale weapons manufacturing using the same agile, rapid, and scalable processes found in the commercial manufacturing sector.”
The conflict in Ukraine has highlighted a critical vulnerability in the United States’ ability to respond to crises. Projections indicate that in a major conflict, the use of weapons and munitions would quickly exceed supply, with the United States potentially running out of weapons within the first few weeks. The traditional defense industrial base has struggled to scale production to meet these demands, facing slow production rates and inflexible processes. Lead times to replenish key weapons and munitions average two years.
Arsenal is a software-defined manufacturing platform optimized for the mass production of autonomous systems and weapons. It leverages four principles to achieve hyperscale: design for simplicity and scale, resilient supply chain, software-defined production, and a central infrastructure known as Arsenal-1.